WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vedic Sanskrit was both a spoken and literary language of ancient India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sanskrit evolved from Proto-Indo-European languages and was used to write the Vedas, the Hindu religious texts compiled between 1500-500 BCE. Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, the most ancient Hindu scripts, compiled c. 1500-500 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest form of Sanskrit is that used in the Rig Veda (called Old Indic or Rigvedic Sanskrit). Amazingly, Rigvedic Sanskrit was first recorded in inscriptions found not on the plains of India but in in what is now northern Syria.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sanskrit – 1500 BC (circa. 3500 years old) Interestingly, several thousand people report Sanskrit as their first language on India’s census each time it’s performed, though it’s believed no one speaks it as their first language today.